Making Hot Chocolate from 1747

[grammy_hnng]

when he says "hard as a rock" he MEANS IT. i grew up eating abuelita tablets raw and those things were bonafide jawbreakers

[LunaNik]

The internet would be a desolate hellhole without nerds. Thank you for being both entertaining and educational. We need more nerds!

[SaraOrgana]

Love how step one is to make a homemade spiced dark chocolate bar.

[keweplz]

I'm from Chile and my grandma would make us hot chocolate with the shells of the cocoa nibs, they would sell it at the market really cheap and she would boil them in a pot of milk with some cinnamom and cloves after a long winter's day at school it was the BEST . Although its mostly known as birthday chocolatebecause when she was young they would serve it with the cake at birthday parties

[daniellesalvador]

We still do this in the Philippines. We buy these "tableas" and make thick hot chocolate with it. My family puts a little peanut butter for more texture and flavor.

It is usually a Christmas treat.

[tokaiwadaikirai]

I planted a cacao tree in my backyard back in 2019 and now it has grown a lot. The tree is not fully mature yet, but it has been producing decent pods recently and I'm gonna save this recipe once I've harvested and fermented my pods. Wish me luck!

[jonadabvargas]

In the state of oxacac, there is a marketplace in the downtown area where you can still go a buy your choclate just like that and they blend and proces all ingredient right in front of you.

[RichyArg]

We still make it like these in Mexico
Well, we buy the bars (usually Disk shaped, but some are octagonal or Square) already made, there are packaged brands but in some places you can still get them artisanally made

[BenildeMoreno]

That is how it's still done in Mexico. We also add almonds or peanuts. In the South East of Mexico, they add chile (wrongly called chilli).

[donyellat]

My uncle makes and sells the equivalent of the ‘gritty paste’ in Trinidad and Tobago. He sells it in the equivalent of cocoa bars blocks and and bars of chocolate shapes…Recently visited Tobago and stocked up on some for the winter and I’ve been drinking this at least once a week for the last couple of months… boy is it rich! Thanks for sharing this! Sometimes the old way is just the best way

[damiana]

Those look like Abuelita brand hot chocolate pucks.

[mordsythe]

My grandmother made hot chocolate every Christmas that way.
A tradition we carry on to this day in her honor.
My mother makes the chocolate “cake” at the beginning of December and by the 1st Jan, it’s all been used up.

Genuinely one of my fave things about xmas

[joejay]

Most Mexican families still make it that way. The Aztecs presented Cortes with the drink, and Cortes took it back to Europe.The rest is history.

[delorishall]

This is how we West Indians (Jamaicans) grew up drinking hot chocolate. Our parents knew this tradition very well.

[darthbiker]

This brings back memories of my Lola from Bohol cooking hot chocolate for me and my sister in our Manila home. We always wondered why there were no tableya (small round disks of pure, unsweetened chocolate -- and yes, they are hard as a rock) anywhere in Manila. Turns out our Lola made the tableya herself, from picking the right cocoa beans to roasting them to having them processed down to forming them into disks. I acquired a taste for pure chocolate, no milk, no sugar, when I was 10 and never looked back. To me it's still the best chocolate beverage ever.

[peterbaillif]

You’re one of my favorite nerds my guy. Love the channel and learning random food facts to throw at my friends unsolicited.

[hcyjsmd]

Hot chocolate/coffee houses were pretty popular meeting places from the mid 17th century, like Starbucks today, one popular house in London was Lloyd's Coffee House. It attracted a bit of a maritime crowd, who started to do business when they were there, including the buying and selling of ship/cargo insurance. This eventually led to Lloyd's becoming solely an insurance market, Lloyd's of London, the biggest in the world and oldest still in operation.

edits: Changed 'emporium' for 'coffee house'. Changed 'Lloyd's' to 'Lloyd's Coffee House'. N.b despite being called 'Coffee houses', hot chocolate was just as popular a drink. Hot chocolate was often watered down at these coffee houses, in turn Chocolate Houses provided more rich drinking chocolate for those who could afford it.

[Kingz_]

Growing up in a Mexican household, we had the abuelita hot chocolate. It came in a hard chunk like this. Tastes different too!

[azigar]

In the caribbean we make hot chocolate like that, but we tend to strain it. We buy the cocoa logs or sticks or blocks or pucks or just make it from scratch if you have a tree. Delicious!!

[Hikrol]

Here in México we still have chocolate like this. It's called "chocolate de mesa" and is widely used for beverages and deserts.